Metahuman, no eyebrows or eyelashes in one project

Development Character & Animation
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I’m not sure when it started, but the eyebrows and eyelashes are missing from my metahuman:

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I have her set to LOD 2.

As a test, I created a fresh project and re-imported the same metahuman, and her eyebrows and eyelashes display normally:

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In both of these screenshots, I have the eyebrows selected in the outliner, but for some reason on the first metahuman, they aren’t even highlighted.

I’ve searched a while now for ways to fix this, and nothing has worked yet.

Does anyone have an idea?

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Hi there,
Welcome,
There are some hair assets that are available only with LOD 0 and 1. If you set LOD 2, they will disappear. You can see the assets marked with this restriction in the Metahuman Creator. But it might be just a bug in the case of eyelashes and eyebrows. You want to check the UE 5.0.3 release notes.

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Thanks for the reply. In both screenshots they are set to LOD 2, so I don’t think that is the problem.

Could it have something to do with the UE version the project was originally created in? I made that test project recently, so it is 5.0.3, but the original project was earlier, probably 5.0, I think.

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I’m having the same issue with the city sample crowd. Setting the min LOD to 2 does fix it but would be nice to use LOD1 & 0 again. I don’t see any groom asset for eyebrows, starting to wonder if there ever was :confused: I’ll have to run some tests I guess!

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Hi there,
It seems that enabling the Alembic import plugin fixes some issues with groom assets. Give it a try.